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TIL Laurence Fishbourne was 14 when shooting began for Apocalypse Now, even though he lied and said he was 16. The movie took so long to film he was 17 by the time it wrapped, the actual age of his character. The whole experience is reminiscent of the many underaged boys who enlisted in Vietnam

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